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Fe Villanueva del Mundo, OLD ONS GCGH, (born Fé Primitiva del Mundo y Villanueva; 27 November 1911 – 6 August 2011 [1]) was a Filipino pediatrician.She founded the first pediatric hospital in the Philippines and is known for shaping the modern child healthcare system in the Philippines.
Engineering Sciences and Technology Engineering and Inventions 1980 Fe Del Mundo: Health Pediatrics Eduardo Quisumbing: Biological Sciences Plant Taxonomy, Systematics, and Morphology 1982 Geminiano T. de Ocampo: Health Science Ophthalmology Casimiro del Rosario: Mathematical and Physical Science Physics, Astronomy, and Meteorology Gregorio ...
Fe del Mundo (1911–2011), Philippines – medical incubator made out of bamboo for use in rural communities without electrical power; Colin Murdoch (1929–2008), New Zealand – Tranquillizer gun, disposable hypodermic syringe; William Murdoch (1754–1839), Scotland – Gas lighting
Dioscoro Lopez Umali (November 17, 1917 – July 1, 1992) was a Filipino agriculturalist and National Scientist of the Philippines awardee, known as "the Father of Philippine Plant Breeding."
Dolores A. Ramirez was born on September 20, 1931, in Calamba, Laguna to Leonor Altoveros and Augusto U. Ramirez. She was the oldest of eight children and her father died when she was young.
In 1967, Velasco was appointed Commissioner of the National Institute of Science and Technology, a position he held for 10 years. Even though his duties were administrative in nature, he continued to work on various research projects using the NIST laboratories.
In 1948, the survey, led by Dr. Juan Salcedo, Jr. and a team including Dr. M. D. Bamba and three other medical officers, aimed to assess beriberi in the Philippines. They surveyed approximately 22% of the population in the experimental zone and 2 out of 5 control municipality in Bataan, examining 1,000 to 2,500 individuals per municipality.
Javier was born in Santa Cruz, Laguna, Philippines.He earned his Ph.D. in Plant Breeding and Genetics from Cornell University, his master's degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign and bachelor's degree from the University of the Philippines College of Agriculture (now the University of the Philippines Los Baños).